Time for a little ‘Tough love’ for this country.
Starve the beast.
you need to get a lot of private companies to do that too. Our utilities have gimme programs that make us pay more to replace inner city crappy heating units with super high efficient ones so that when the winter comes around (and service can’t be shut off for non-payment) , they use less natural gas. These are the same places that call up the utilities and tell them their apartments are cold, then they get there and see the heater’s set to 90 degrees but a bunch of windows are open. the apartment’s a dump and all the money these people have are in video games, smokes, and put into their cars.
These are the animals that need to be starved.